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Re: US plan calls for more scanning of private Web traffic, email

Originally Posted by BmanMcfly

What do you think google IS??

Google being involved with the NSA since its inception. You are getting information, and google logs and tracks even what you are thinking about... And with smartphones, people are telling google about themselves on a minute to minute basis.

Re: US plan calls for more scanning of private Web traffic, email

Originally Posted by humbolt

Who are these people that don't care about privacy anymore?

Read the TOS on the free e-mail services like Google,Yahoo and such. Read the TOS on your smart phone accounts. They all keep track of what you send and say. You give up your privacy anytime you use one of them. E-mails and phone calls from a companies servers or phone switches are not private. Every time you use any of the above you willing give up your privacy

2. I don't know about you, but when I cut my teeth on the Internet as it was becoming available to the public, and my understanding of e-mail was always that it was the equivalent of writing your correspondence on the back of a post card. If you want privacy, you encrypt. That's why the government faught PGP for so long and why key escrow was such a hot topic for so long.

3. Pretty much every free service on the Internet scans your correspondence and usage patterns for marketing data.

4. The search engines retain and market your usage patterns too.

5. Not saying this is a good thing, but if you really care about online privacy you need to take steps rather than just bitching about what the government has been doing for years.

Re: US plan calls for more scanning of private Web traffic, email

Originally Posted by humbolt

Who are these people that don't care about privacy anymore?

by far the vast majority of Americans.

Actions speak louder than words.

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”